“Texting is a fundamentally sneaky form of communication, which we should despise, but it is such a boon we don't care. We are all sneaks now.” ShouldCareFormCommunicationDon't CareDespiseSneakTextingBoonSneaky Author:Lynne Truss
“Texting is a supremely secretive medium of communication - it's like passing a note - and this means we should be very careful what we use it for.” ShouldMeanUseCommunicationNotesCarefulPassingPassingsMediumsTextingSecretive Author:Lynne Truss
“The advent of the mobile phone was a disaster. We are forced to listen, open-mouthed, to other people's intimate conversations. Increasingly, we are all in our virtual bubbles when we are out in public, whether we are texting, listening to iPods, reading or just staring dangerously at other people.” PeopleWorldAmericaReadingModernListeningConversationPhonesDisasterStaringIntimateBubblesModern WorldMobileIpodsAdventTextingMobile PhonesIntimate Conversation Author:Lynne Truss
“As someone who sends texts messages more or less non-stop, I enjoy one particular aspect of texting more than anything else: that it is possible to sit in a crowded railway carriage laboriously spelling out quite long words in full, and using an enormous amount of punctuation, without anyone being aware of how outrageously subversive I am being.” LongEnjoyParticularAmountMessagesAspectEnormousCrowdedSubversiveSpellingCarriagesPunctuationRailwayTextingNon StopText MessageLong Words Author:Lynne Truss
